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{{Short description|Irish politician (1935–2021)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| image               = Liam Kavanagh, May 1980 (cropped).jpg
| caption             = Kavanagh in 1980
| office              = [[Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment|Minister for Tourism, Fisheries and Forestry]]
| taoiseach           = [[Garret FitzGerald]]
| term_start          = 14 February 1986
| term_end            = 20 January 1987
| predecessor         = [[Paddy O'Toole]]
| successor           = Paddy O'Toole
| office1             = [[Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage|Minister for the Environment]]
| taoiseach1          = Garret FitzGerald
| term_start1         = 13 December 1983
| term_end1           = 14 February 1986
| predecessor1        = [[Dick Spring]]
| successor1          = [[John Boland (Fine Gael politician)|John Boland]]
| office2             = [[Minister for Labour (Ireland)|Minister for Labour]]
| taoiseach2          = Garret FitzGerald
| term_start2         = 14 December 1982
| term_end2           = 13 December 1983
| predecessor2        = [[Gene Fitzgerald]]
| successor2          = [[Ruairi Quinn]]
| taoiseach3          = Garret FitzGerald
| term_start3         = 30 June 1981
| term_end3           = 9 March 1982
| predecessor3        = [[Tom Nolan (Irish politician)|Tom Nolan]]
| successor3          = Gene Fitzgerald
| office4             = [[Minister for Transport (Ireland)|Minister for the Public Service]]
| taoiseach4          = Garret FitzGerald
| term_start4         = 30 June 1981
| term_end4           = 9 March 1982
| predecessor4        = Gene Fitzgerald
| successor4          = Gene Fitzgerald
| office5             = [[Teachta Dála]]
| term_start5         = [[1969 Irish general election|June 1969]]
| term_end5           = [[1997 Irish general election|June 1997]]
| constituency5       = [[Wicklow (Dáil constituency)|Wicklow]]
| office6             = [[Member of the European Parliament]]
| term_start6         = June 1979
| term_end6           = July 1981
| constituency6       = [[Leinster (European Parliament constituency)|Leinster]]
| term_start7         = January 1973
| term_end7           = June 1979
| constituency7       = [[Oireachtas|Oireachtas Delegation]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1935|2|9|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[County Wicklow]], Ireland
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2021|12|13|1935|2|9|df=y}}
| death_place         = County Wicklow, Ireland
| party               = [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour]]
| spouse              = Margaret Kavanagh
| children            = 2
| education           = 
| alma_mater          = 
}}
'''Liam Kavanagh''' (9 February 1935 – 13 December 2021) was an Irish [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]] politician.<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Liam-Kavanagh.D.1969-07-02/|title=Liam Kavanagh|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=19 February 2010|archive-date=8 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108144507/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Liam-Kavanagh.D.1969-07-02|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Biography==
He was elected to [[Dáil Éireann]] at the [[1969 Irish general election|1969 general election]] as a Labour Party [[Teachta Dála]] (TD) for the [[Wicklow (Dáil constituency)|Wicklow]] constituency. He remained in the Dáil until he lost his seat at the [[1997 Irish general election|1997 general election]].<ref name=elecs_irl>{{cite web|url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2983|title=Liam Kavanagh|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=19 February 2010|archive-date=21 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221184738/http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?id=2983|url-status=live}}</ref> He was also appointed to the [[European Parliament]] on two occasions in 1973 and 1977 and was elected to the parliament in 1979 for the [[Leinster (European Parliament constituency)|Leinster]] constituency. He gave up this seat on being appointed [[Minister for Labour (Ireland)|Minister for Labour]] and [[Minister for Transport (Ireland)|Minister for the Public Service]] in 1981.

Kavanagh also served as a member of the [[British–Irish Parliamentary Assembly]] from 1990 to 1997 and of the Semi-State Bodies Commission from 1987 to 1997, being chairman from 1995 to 1997.

He was appointed to the [[Standards in Public Office Commission]] on its establishment in December 2001.

Kavanagh was the nephew of [[James Everett (politician)|James Everett]], a former Labour Party cabinet minister. His own son Conal Kavanagh was a member of [[Wicklow County Council]] and Wicklow Town Council from 2004 until he retired in 2014.

He died on 13 December 2021, at the age of 86.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-12-13|title=Death announced of former Labour Minister Liam Kavanagh|url=https://wicklownews.net/2021/12/death-announced-of-former-labour-minister-liam-kavanagh/|access-date=2021-12-13|website=WicklowNews}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{MEP|796|Liam Kavanagh}}

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       |years  = 1981–1982}}
{{s-aft|after  = [[Gene Fitzgerald]]|rows = 2}}
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       |years  = 1982–1983}}
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{{s-bef|before = [[Dick Spring]]}}
{{s-ttl|title  = [[Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage|Minister for the Environment]] 
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{{s-aft|after  = [[John Boland (Fine Gael politician)|John Boland]]}}
{{s-bef|before = [[Paddy O'Toole]]}}
{{s-ttl|title  = [[Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment|Minister for Tourism, Fisheries and Forestry]] 
       |years  = 1986–1987}}
{{s-aft|after  = [[Paddy O'Toole]]}}
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